Construction industry looks to youth to fix labor shortage

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4 thoughts on “Construction industry looks to youth to fix labor shortage

  1. Well, let’s see; our culture legally slaughtered over 62,000,000 potential workers from 1973 through last month, so there’s one source of workers that was nipped in the bud. What goes around, comes around.

    1. At least you admit you don’t care about children…. Just meat sacks to produce goods

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